Toddy Stewart is an editor who shoots. He spent 12 years as partner at the award winning production company Picture Farm as in-house filmmaker, supervising editor, executive post producer and creative director, partnering, facilitating and collaborating with other creative and art directors, commercial and fashion photographers, fine artists and fellow filmmakers,

He has an Emmy statuette with his name on it and in helped guide dozens of projects to multiple industry awards in his various roles as editor, supervising editor, executive post producer, executive producer, director and art director, including Clios and Reggies, Addies and Tellies, golden high fives, graphite this’s and platinum that’s, Staff Picks and online features and AICP & Webby nominations, Best Of’s and shortlists.

His handiwork has been presented at the Tribeca Film Festival, Cannes Lions, the Ciclope Festival, Santa Barbara Film Festival, Berlin Fashion Film Festival, New York Film Festival, La Jolla International Fashion Film Festival, Byron Bay Film Festival, New York Surf Film Festival, Canadian Surf Film Festival, London Surf Film Festival and Surfilm Festibal San Sebastián, Festival Maribor among others. His handiwork has been presented at the Whitney Museum, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, The Brooklyn Museum, the World Trade Center Oculus and at the Barclay’s Center Brooklyn Oculus (Marilyn Minter), Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (Roe Ethridge), Wembley Stadium (Umbro), and Times Square (Ryan McGinley, Nike.) In 2021 he worked with the photographer/artist/director Justin French to bring Alice Coltrane’s Kirtan: Turiya Sings to visual life as a meditative album film.

He has spoken at SXSW about how to make the advertising industry more inclusive and at Advertising Week New York about how to optimize for an evolving digital world and participated in round tables at the NYC Mayor's Office of Media & Entertainment about professional training programs. For his work developing a filmmaking internship and mentorship program at Picture Farm, in 2019 he was named a Small Business Administration Small Business Person of the Year and a Brooklyn Workforce Innovations Outstanding Employer.

Toddy curated and operated the Picture Farm Gallery from 2011 to 2018 and alongside Ty Breuer, hosted the annual It Doesn’t Not Work surfcraft expo from 2014 to 2018.

In 2008 he made a paean to the rigors of a surfing life that holds enduring relevance. Sometimes he experiments with writing on Substack.

For commercial commissions Toddy is represented by Supervision.

For all other collaboration inquiries, a sample reel or just to find out what he’s been doing lately, feel free to fill this in:

“Do you consider yourself a director?”
”First of all, I don’t consider myself anything… I fell into movies more just by making them, starting when I was seventeen, and I’ve done all the jobs.”
”Is there one you prefer?”
”No, I like all the jobs. At the time, when everything was on film, I liked the editing, so I was an assistant editor.”

- Mathieu Amalric on filmmaking, Criterion Kitchen Conversations

Photo courtesy of Ivory Serra

“Rick loves music, and that’s really why I decided to work with him. It’s not because of his technical skill; he has no musical skill, he plays no instrument really, not even a guitar. He just loves music.”

- Tom Petty on Rick Rubin, Somewhere You Feel Free: The Making of Wildflowers

“I believe in the impossibility of existence, in the humour of mountains, in the absurdity of electromagnetism, in the farce of geometry, in the cruelty of arithmetic, in the murderous intent of logic.”

- J.G. Ballard with V.Vale, RE/Search

“If it is true that we are created by language, circumstance, and geography, I believe that literature offers us the chance, if we want it, to create ourselves again.”

- Deborah Levy, Letter To My Readers

"Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. It is an orientation of the spirit and orientation of the heart; it transcends the world that is immediately experienced and is anchored somewhere beyond its horizons. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. The more propitious the situation in which we demonstrate hope, the deeper the hope is. Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

- Václav Havel